Trying to hit the ball too hard!!

This is a habit I, and I'm sure others fall into from time to time, trying to smash the cover off the ball!

When I start to do this, I, nearly always, question technique as opposed to the real issue of trying to hit the ball too hard.

Does anyone have any tips/tricks/advice as to how to remedy this?

Mucho kudos in advance :thup:

Research with handicap golfers has shown, focusing the effort on hit, & hard, means the club head reaches it's fastest speed just before the club reaches the delivery position some few feet before impact.
So from that point the club is slowing down over that final few feet towards impact.

The 'hit hard' intent makes the brain send out signals to tense the fingers & this particularly leads to the forearms tensing which then moves up to the shoulders, so before you even take the club away, in effect even before you move, you're already done, & the club head will be slowing well before impact.

This hit hard instinct is effectively telling the brian once you've made contact with the ball, thats it job done, which is why there's no club head acceleration through impact, so as well as no optimum speed often the 'slower speed' is most often accompanied with a strike that's not centered. (Off centered strike with either bottom of face, heel or toe will lose you anywhere between 20 to 30 yards even from a club head that's accelerating)

True importance to distance with any swing, is being able to swing at a speed that the correct swing sequence can work correctly in order, & in 'time'.

Best way to distance is with soft hands, soft arms as this will give you not only relaxed shoulders (hugely important to be able to get a complete 'body turn' in the backswing, but also retain all the muscles 'elasticity' their ability to contract & expand at speed necessary to move the club at the optimum speed possible to you. You really need a relaxed top half over a solid bottom half to be able to make a real good swing motion.

The swing importantly needs really to be thought of as the backswing being the part that puts you in a position to then fluidly swing down through impact collecting the ball on the face through to the swings real end, a fully in balanced finish position, that way you can accelerate the club head at the fastest speed your swing motion allows you to.
Club head speed, not hit hard, transfers through a centered connection to optimum ball speed, so distance.